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NME interviews Johnny Marr about the Record Store Day vinyl reissue of the Smiths' The Queen Is Dead album.

Goldman's long cry of pain seems more like memoir than novel. The use of real names, the apparent cleaving to historical facts, the relentless attentiveness to detail and feeling — all suggest that tenebrous realm we've come to know through the eloquence of Joan Didion and Joyce Carol Oates. Regardless of form, Goldman shares their dark territory.

Earle: "I had my eye on Woody Guthrie when I was making this record -- in a big way -- while also paying close attention to the Carter Family and the Staple Singers at the same time. There's a connection between the Carter Family and the Staple Singers, and it's the church. The difference is one was black, one was white. ... They were all coming from the same place, being poor families that got into music for the love of God."